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Aug 12, 2024 · In the following introduction to the 1986 edition of The Neon Wilderness, Carson calls the collection the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career and comments
Aug 12, 2024 · Algren was known as the author of Somebody in Boots (1935) and Never Come Morning (1942); also The Neon Wilderness (1947), a collection of short stories, and The Man with the...
Aug 12, 2024 · In this evolution lies one of the remarkable paradoxes in Algren's fiction: for a writer both celebrated and condemned for his sympathy with the underdog, the downbeaten, the oppressed and ...
Aug 17, 2024 · Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All is an in-depth documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors. This compelling life story reveals a unique literary voice through rare interviews, historic footage and the gritty voice of Algren himself. Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel, literary giants in their own right, sing songs of praise along interviews with ...
Aug 15, 2024 · As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedevilled, cantankerously poetic sensibility ...
Aug 9, 2024 · Friday's weather looks custom-made for our next event, Mary Wisniewski speaking on the wives of Nelson Algren at the Nelson Algren 616 Sound Stage. You may know Mary by her work at the Chicago Tribune and her wonderful biography called Algren: A Life.
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